The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS

given by Mrs. Stockton, each guest was
presented with little cage containing
canary bird.-Ch Chicago Herald.
"A suburban justice recently settled
case in which q boy committed an as
sault with a pistol, by committing the
lad and ordering the pistol to be dis
charged. -Little Giant.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
has decorated King Malietoa of Samoa
with the grand cross of the royal order
of the Star of Oceana. Owing to his
general lack of costume the latter mon
arch doesn't know how to pin it on
Chicago Nea0S.
An eighteen-year-old young man
of Richie County, Ind, fell i'll with
measles. His grandmother, anxious to
effect a speedy cure and "bring them
out, placed him between two ticks of
feathers, with hot stones at his feet and
live sheep alongside him. He died.
An extremely useful cement for ex-
detrimental use is made from equal
quantities of gutta-percha and white
pine pitch melted together. The CON-
pound should be without Jumps. Tim
proves by remelting, and softenS at
about the temperature of boiling water.
Boston Budget.
Deer in the far West are fast goSsAg
the way of the buffalo. One dealer in
Jacksonville, Ore, in two months
bought 1900 deer skins, andother deal
ers in Southern Oregon have bought as
many. These were all killed for their
skins only, contrary to hw.-Spring-
field TO-. Times.
An explorer of prehistoric mounds
in Ohio has found carefully wrought
hatchets of soft coal associated with
human skeletons and bronze ornaments.
From the character of tie material it is
evident that these were meant to simu-
late axes of flint, and were of no use
excepting in burials. -fOlden Rule.
1t is estimated thai there is at least
S., 900. 600 invested in fast horses in New
York City, exclusive Of the animals kept
for racing purposes. The claim is made
that the owners of these fine creatures
are entitled to special consideration
from the city authorities, who are asked
to lay out Jerome avenue as finished
driveway. Boston Transcript.
"A dispatch from Algeria announces
the death of the greatest lion slayer that
the world has ever seen. Ahmed-ben-
Ahmar, who was last year made a
Knight of the Legion of Honor He
killed eighty lions and as many pan
theirs from the time he learned to shoot
until his departure for the happy hunt
ing grounds.
The total consumption of cocoa is
$4,000, 900 pounds per annum, supplied
mainly by the West Indies and South
America. France heads the list with
26,O00,00 pounds; Spain comes next
with 100000 pounds; then follow
England, 100000 pounds; and the
United States, 100000 pounds.-M Y.
Post.
u
has carefully measured the snowfall
there last winter, says that he makes it
fourteen feet and nine inches, an I'M
precedented depth. The spot where the
snow was measured was in a cedar
swamp surrounded by trees, which was
protected in such a manner that no
snow blew in or out, and the figures are
supposed to be accurate.
At a recent meeting in Baltimore
Of the Freedman's Aid Society, an or
ganization for the education of Meth
odist ministers among the negroes of
the South, Secretary T. G. Hartzell said
that the colored people are increasing
more by births than the whites are by
births and immigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twenty-four hours.-N Y. Sun.
"A double chicken of the Siamese-
twin pattern absorbs the attention Of
the people of Rochefort, Me. 1t has
two heads and two pairs of legs, but
these several members do not agree
when the chicken takes its, or their,
walks abroad-one head and pair Of
legs trying to shape their course to the
right, and the balance as persistently
working for larboard course.-BoSton
Transcript.
The other day, at Buffalo, N. Y,
while a steam boiler was being severely
tested, terrific explosion occurred
and the boiler was hurled several hun
dred feet into the air. In coming down
it struck the side of brick building
and tore huge hole in it. What was
very singular was that the boiler wa.
not broken or shattered, but went NJ
and came down whole, and nobody wa,
injured by the explosion. IN Y Ledger
What is the origin of the name
"Rocky Mountains?" 1 find it in tn,
narrative of Pierre Gaultier de Warren
ness, sieur de la Verandrye, WHOSE
three sons, the LIST January, 1743, frs
sighted the magnificent range. They
called it "Montagnes de Pierres Brill
antes," from the sparkling of the sum
mits in the sunshine. Then came tn,
more prosaic name, "Montagnes Ro
cheuses" or Rocky Mountains" anC
our still more prosaic, Rockies. "
Montreal Gazette.
The Louisville Jockey club has com
pleted arrangements whereby in tn